The new Bon Secours Hospital due to open in Limerick early next year will feature a new electronic health record (EHR) from US vendor MEDITECH as one of the key components of the five-strong hospital group’s 2025 strategic plan, part of an overall €25 million clinical transformation project that will bring its network of hospitals under a single electronic healthcare record (EHR) system.

MEDITECH is due to roll out its Expanse EHR at the new Limerick hospital, which will provide advanced medical and surgical care in addition to a medical assessment unit (MAU), 99 inpatient rooms, a specialist ophthalmology department and an interventional cardiovascular lab.

Replacing a mixture of digital and paper-based systems, the plan at Bon Secours Cork and Dublin is to also introduce the Expanse Oncology outpatient solution that provides specialty-specific workflows, decision support, and mobile access to patient data for its cancer services.

Bon Secours Hospital Limerick CEO Sarah O’Sullivan will speak about the new hospital at the Hospital of the Future session at the Future Health Summit in Dublin next week. She will be joined by the clinical director of Cork University Maternity Hospital Mairead O’Riordan and Xerox’s digital strategy lead Peter Mann.

The Hospital of the Future session follows another on digitally enabled change at the summit, which has a big focus on digital health.

There will be a summit special presentation from Health Service Executive CIO Fran Thompson, who will speak about the newly released Irish Digital Health Strategy and an accompanying roadmap outlining the steps needed to implement the strategy.

The Future Health Summit is being held at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre on May 29 and 30. Tickets are still available.